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Do Your UTI Bugs thrive on Cranberry!

If you have  suffered from recurring UTI , Cystitis or Bladder Infections for some time, you'll probably recall how cranberry juice - when you first tried it - seemed to be that mythical knight in shining armor, an answer to all your prayers.

But then, just as things were improving and you seemed to have found a permanent cure for UT - the attacks returned - much worse than before!  That's what happened to me - anyway!

Now why is that?  What's going on?  Why are these cystitis attacks happening again and again?

Well, e-coli (the cause of most Cystitis / UTI and Bladder Infections) is known as an adaptive bacterium, meaning it is capable of adapting its nutritional needs to its immediate environment.   Because Cranberry creates acidic urine (rather than the normal neutral kind), you are effectively nourishing the e-coli whenever you drink Cranberry.

About 5 years ago I began to regularly take daily cranberry, in the belief that it would reduce or eradicate my frequent Cystitis attacks.  At first things improved, but then discovered that I still got just as many infections as previously.

Only when I began to do my own research did I realize that I had been wasting my time and money.  I was foolishly following a widely-dispersed myth instead of searching out something that really worked (I did in the end though).

If it's a myth, then why is cranberry so popular?  Why do the "experts" say it works in reduce or cure Cystitis / UTI?  Is its reputation totally underserved, or just partly undeserved?  Here is a very basic encapsulation of the information I gleaned:

It is well-known (in scientific circles anyway) that the e-coli bug sticks like crazy to the walls of the urinary tract, where it sets up home and multiplies.  It is also well known that Cranberry juice has a mildly anti-adhesive property.  From these two unrelated facts everyone seems to have decided that if bacteria sticks and cranberry un-sticks, then cranberry must be particularly good for cystitis sufferers and UTI sufferers.

However, if you balance the benefits of being an anti-adhesion agent against the damage done by producing and acidic urine in which e-coli thrives, the benefits just don't outweigh the bads, and cranberry fails miserably.

Another problem - cranberry can stop many antibiotics working effectively.  Antibiotics work by damaging the bacteria's cell walls.  Adding cranberry-created hippuric acid to the urine just encourages the bacteria to grow a thicker skin, making a future use of antibiotics much less likely to succeed.

This is the reason that those UTI-sufferers who have been taking cranberry for years, frequently find that their physician's normal course of antibiotics is insufficient and the infection quickly returns.   This problem is compounded by the modern doctors' unwillingness to prescribe more than the standard 1-week course of antibiotics, when really a month or more is needed.

"BUT IT SEEMED TO BE WORKING SO WELL - AT FIRST!"

Yes, it often does!  Drinking cranberry results in your urine becoming more acidic, and that will - at first - attack and kill many of those bacterial cells.

So at first you'll feel better, and probably believe that cranberry is the miracle you have been searching for (I know I did).  But that is usually only a temporary respite.

Those remaining e-coli cells, (always the stronger tougher ones), will soon get used to their new environment, then begin to reproduce and breed ever-stronger duplicates of themselves.  Your next attack will inevitably be worse than any attack you've had before, and you'll label cranberry as a curse.

In reality, not all that I've outlined here happens to all cystitis or UTI-sufferers, but it really did happen to me!  After 21 years of sporadic UTI-problems, I was informed about cranberry.  I hated its taste, but taking a cranberry pill every day gave me more than four years of relief.

Then, right out of the blue, I had a really bad attack.  I increased my cranberry intake - but to no avail.  I had to visit my physician and get antibiotics.  A few months later, I had another much more painful UTI, much worse than every before (I'll spare you all the gory details).  It was only now that I accepted that cranberry was no longer the cure for UTI that I had once believed.

I began to search for an alternative treatment for UTI.  It took a while, but I then located a natural remedy for UTI, and which is staggering in its simplicity.  It ha no known side-effects, no interaction with other drugs, and it isn't absorbed by the body at all!  And it can also be used as a UTI-preventative or as a very effective uti treatment.

It's called Mannose, or D-Mannose, or Waterfall D Mannose (no, I don't know why).  It comes from trees (just like the humble aspirin), and seems to offer hope to many people for whom regular UTI's are part of life. 

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